Show r eat Driving On the lie Go 1 hij FRANK K BAKER Maybe theres there's some merit to this trend for changes in coaching ranks after all aU One is struck by the for helping the unemployment situation after tracing a recent chain of circumstances ThIs particular string of events started at Bloomington lad Ind when the powers that be of Indiana university decided that E. E C. C Billy BUly Hayes was doing plenty plent of Work for his wages in turning out superb track and field squads and that henceforward ho he needn't bother coachIng coach coach- lug Ing footbalL Hayes it must be said in his behalf was no more of a personal fall faU- tire ure ns as a football coach at Indiana than several predecessors ors Geographical ical handicaps ps and below average high school talent are blamed for the Crimsons Crimson's consistent occupancy of the Big Ten football basement Indiana's high schools are arc too with ith their basketball to pa pay much attention to football ll and therefore produce only a mea meager er crop of talented gridiron prospects But to stick to the original subject hayes was relieved of one of his two jobs Into the opening for a brIght young man walked AlvIn uBo Bo McMillIn lillIn of Centre college Praying Colonels fame 1 left a pretty prett lair fair job where State he be landed after coaching turns at Ce Centenary and Geneva to take the Indiana berth Another bran lUan ConIes Alon Alons To Fill lc llin's Post Accordingly another bright young man packed up and moved into the Kansas state job from r Okla OkIa where he had b been n coaching coachIng coach coach- ing the Oklahoma Aggles' Aggles football teams This latter chap is 15 Lynn O. O Waldorf n a star at Syracuse university back in the Chick Meehan regime Waldorf's departure l left n the head or of the open and Albert A. A Exendine one of that famous band of Pop Warner trained Carlisle Indians took over the position Now comes the further Associated Press dispatch with the news that McMillin is taking Ralph Graham Kansas State captain last fall nU with wiLl him to Indiana as assistant coach Graham a colorful reputation tion as Ramming Ra Ralph the mast dangerous ball carrier in the Big Six last faU and his former conch coach figures hes he's good enough for a coachIng coaching coach coach- Ing partner So what Indiana decides to put Billy Hayes on a one one- job basis and we get getan an aggregate something like this Steps upward In the coaching scale for Waldorf and X uX Exendine and to carry the thing to logical conclusion a new brand place on Oklahoma Aggles' Aggles athletic coaching staff for at least one of the present years year's crop of would would-be football football foot foot- ball coaches as has developed at IndIana with Graham filling ng the bill blU Three promotions and two new new jobs jobs Not half bad much about Its foot foot- Indiana for a school that doesn't boast ball Isn't It the Truth With apologies to nobody and explanations unneeded I present the lines lines' by Pleasanton Conquest t Jr Need more be said I surely wish I went A 4 like the president 11 A where the sun un is hot Aboard a comfortable yacht Like Mister Astor's Where I could doze and dream an all aU A snow for summer seas And Icy wind for balmy breeze Forg all aU the cares that vex S' S A on sunny Bunny decks wisht wish wish- t I know Ill I'll never get my t Some Some idiot Idiot would want to fish Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate |